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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 42
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Jacob sends his sons to buy grain in Egypt—They bow before Joseph—He accuses them roughly, imprisons Simeon, and sends them back for Benjamin.
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Now</span> when Jacob saw that there was <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 7: 12.">corn</a> in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
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And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
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&#182; And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 43: 20.">corn</a> in Egypt.
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But <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 35: 18; Gen. 44: 29; Gen. 49: 27 (26-28); Josh. 18: 11 (11-28).">Benjamin</a>, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
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And the sons of Israel came to buy <i>corn</i> among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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And Joseph <i>was</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 41: 43 (41-43).">governor</a> over the land, <i>and</i> he <i>it was</i> that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/42/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 37: 7 (7, 9-10); Gen. 43: 26 (26-28); Gen. 44: 14.">bowed</a> down themselves before him <i>with</i> their faces to the earth.
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And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye?  And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
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And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
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And Joseph remembered the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Dreams.">dreams</a> which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye <i>are</i> spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
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And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
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We <i>are</i> all one <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 43: 27; Gen. 44: 20.">man</a>’s sons; we <i>are</i> true <i>men,</i> thy servants are no spies.
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And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
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And they said, Thy servants <i>are</i> twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest <i>is</i> this day with our father, and one <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 37: 30.">not</a>.
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And Joseph said unto them, That <i>is it</i> that I spake unto you, saying, Ye <i>are</i> spies:
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Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
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Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether <i>there be any</i> truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye <i>are</i> spies.
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And he put them all together into ward three days.
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And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; <i>for</i> I <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reverence.">fear</a> God:
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If ye <i>be</i> true <i>men,</i> let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
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But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die.  And they did so.
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&#182; And they said one to another, We <i>are</i> verily <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Guilt.">guilty</a> concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 35: 23 (22-23); Gen. 37: 21; Gen. 42: 37.">Reuben</a> answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/42/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Capital Punishment.">blood</a> is required.
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And they knew not that Joseph understood <i>them;</i> for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
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And he turned himself about from them, and <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 43: 30.">wept</a>; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
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&#182; Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 43: 12.">money</a> into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
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And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
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And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 43: 21.">money</a>; for, behold, it <i>was</i> in his sack’s mouth.
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And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, <i>it is</i> even in my sack: and their heart failed <i>them,</i> and they were afraid, saying one to another, What <i>is</i> this <i>that</i> God hath done unto us?
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&#182; And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
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The man, <i>who is</i> the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
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And we said unto him, We <i>are</i> true <i>men;</i> we are no spies:
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We <i>be</i> twelve brethren, sons of our father; one <i>is</i> not, and the youngest <i>is</i> this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
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And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye <i>are</i> true <i>men;</i> leave one of your brethren <i>here</i> with me, and take <i>food for</i> the famine of your households, and be gone:
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And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye <i>are</i> no spies, but <i>that</i> ye <i>are</i> true <i>men: so</i> will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
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&#182; And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money <i>was</i> in his sack: and when <i>both</i> they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
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And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved <i>of my children:</i> Joseph <i>is</i> not, and Simeon <i>is</i> not, and ye will take <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/36a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 44: 29.">Benjamin</a> <i>away:</i> all these things are against me.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/37a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 42: 22; Num. 26: 5.">Reuben</a> spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
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And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/42/38a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 37: 35; Gen. 44: 31 (29, 31).">sorrow</a> to the grave.
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